Re: dynamic dist?

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hi Tyler,

* Tyler MacDonald wrote on Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 11:53:55PM CEST:
> Tyler MacDonald <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > noinst_DATA = `cat Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT/MANIFEST`

> dist-hook:
>       (sed -e "s,^,Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT/," -e "s,\s.*$$,," < \
>               Net-BitTorrent-LibBTT/MANIFEST) | \
>               cpio -pdum $(distdir)
> 
>       Is this portable (enough)? I'm thinking of turning it into a general
> automake macro so you can just do something like:
> 
> dist_MANIFESTS = foo/MANIFEST bar/MANIFEST

Hmm.  First, I think you can just drop the
  -e "s,\s.*$$,,"

part; it serves no useful purpose, and `\s' isn't portable AFAIK.  Then,
although SUSv3 specifies the cpio storage format, it doesn't specify the
`cpio' tool, but only pax.  Practically, you can't rely on that, though.
I find neither of them in my MSYS installation, nor my Cygwin
installation (although I bet they are part of Cygwin; I just guess they
are not part of the basic install).

How about going the other way and creating `MANIFEST' from the data you
are collecting in Makefile.am?  Just an idea, you know.

Cheers,
Ralf